September 9, 2024 • 27 mins
Sarahbeth Taite joins us on WSM Radio this week to talk about her latest single as we play music and much more! Tune in each and every Sunday morning from 5:30-6:00 AM CT on the home of the Opry, AM 650 WSM!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey guys, this is Sarah F. Tate and you are
listening to the Backstage Pass on the Home of the
Grand Old Opry, WSM six fifty.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
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what she's doing, some great things out there, and please
to have her here on this Sunday morning here, brighton Early.
Hope you're drinking coffee out there. Brandon Morel here and
the new single First Rodeo is definitely creating some really
good headlines out there too, from People Magazine to Country
Music Television CMT and all the good stuff. But good
friends Sarah Beth Tate to the show how you doing.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Hey, I'm doing great? Thank you for having.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Me, appreciate you being here too, and just glad to
feature you here on WSM Radio. Well tell us about this.
This single is creating a lot of noise right now
in a good way for first rodeo. I no you
and I've done not our first rodeo here, no pun intended,
but we've done shows like this in the past two
But you put out a lot of great singles and
this one really, to me, just stands out to the
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public and the country music fans.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Thank you so much. It is a favorite of mine.
I felt like it was perfect timing to put this
out just in the heat of the summer. It's just
really a nod to the nineties country music that we
all know and love. I mean, I feel like this
is my this is my version of Strawberry Wine. I mean,
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not that anything's ever going to top that, It's just
it's just kind of for me in the writing room,
this was a really special one to create and bring
to life in the studio. And I feel like this
title and this hook, it's it's a fresh take on
the phrase that we hear all the time. I mean,
(02:04):
you just said it in conversation, because we hear the
Saint my Verus Radio so much, and we've heard so
many songs about that. And I love that you kind
of see this title and think that it's going to
be this cliche you've heard a million times. It's going
to be a song you've heard a million times, and
I think when you turn it on and you get
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through the first chorus, you're just like, Oh, I didn't
I don't know that as a listener, I don't know
that I've heard this story and this hook before. So
that was really special to me.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Well, it does tell a beautiful story out there too.
And you have the best part about being on WSM.
We get to play a little music here on the
audio side. So here it is from Sarah FSA. It's
called First Rodeo. Catch it across all those digital streaming
platforms and you get to listen to it right here
on WSMAM six fifty, the Home of the Grand Ole Lockery.
You crank it up.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Seventeen.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
I was green as the grass Fremer parked on while
the sky turned the stars home. I took it too
far in the back of a bronco. I was scared,
didn't want you to stop, though.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
I believed everyonee you were mine and I was shoes.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
You rope me in long enough just to lecko, then
you lecko.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
You were my first road here, my first ride down.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
The red road, rocking board. Right out of the gate,
we took off in the cloud of smoke.
Speaker 7 (03:48):
Hell all over, and I promise shoot, I felt harder
than I thought.
Speaker 8 (03:53):
I was my first used to live running while first
time I was god boom.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
You were my first road here srising you.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Yeah, it probably should have told me you were the
kind that would hold me.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Skip town, head and head for the next one. I
learned my lesson from the best of them.
Speaker 7 (04:21):
You were my first rodio. My first ride had read the.
Speaker 8 (04:27):
Road like a bo ride out of the gate, we
took off in the cloud of smoke, hell all a
and I probably should I felt harder than I thought
I would.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
My first taste of love on my first time.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
I god boom, you were my first roadio.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
He believed, didn't you my I was yours? I should
be my last. But I'm glad that I didn't know.
You were my first rodeo. You are my first rodeo.
Speaker 7 (05:28):
Hell in a probisher, I fell harder than a fellow.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
My first changed to beloved on my first time.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
I God, you were my first rodeo. You're my first ronio.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
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Speaker 2 (06:36):
And back here with Sarah bet Tate on the Home
of the Grand Ole Opry AM six fifty WSM. Please
to be joined here too by one of the greats
in country music out there, and she's carving that path
right now and doing it in so many ways. You know,
we talked about this probably on previous shows, but and
I love this single first rodeo we just played here
on the podcast here. But at the same time, so
many great ladies are doing their thing out there. We
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mentioned Landy Wilson and of course Carly Pearce, Ashley mcbrine,
Hannah Ellis, Ashley Cook, the names go on and on.
What does that say about just females in country music
finally getting that due diligence.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Yeah, I just think it's it's a great time to
be a female artist and writer in this town right now.
I mean I think that I think we felt like
for so long we weren't hearing as many of our
voices on the radio and on playlists, And I just
think it just goes to show that if the songs
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are good, if the music is good, it'll it'll shine,
you know. And I think that I think female country
music fans want to hear from us too.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
You've done some great music. I loved out there, and
we probably did a few shows on this one. But
it makes you think about life in general when you
talk about a song like pretty Good Living. Let's let's
shine the light there a little bit on this one too,
because sometimes we take this thing called life some of
us may be for granted, I can't speak for everybody,
but at the same time, I know, for me, I
try to take things so seriously. But when you step back, Sarah,
(08:00):
you listen to a song like pretty Good Living, you
kind of understand what did the rides all about?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Right? I know, I know that song makes me cry,
and it's so you know, hopefully that one is just
kind of a reminder to us and hopefully it makes
us feel a little better on the chaotic weeks. It's
like my therapy sometimes listening to that song. So yeah,
that one's really close to my heart for sure.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
And even one before that you had was called this
was twenty twenty two, I believe, Right on Time, and
this was a cool thing to kind of just you know,
bring a country music fans together. And this one calls
quite the buzz for you.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
M m it sure did? I think it was. That
was kind of the start of this new chapter for
me as as a mom and as an artist. You know,
just this new chapter of my artistry and my personal
life kind of came together starting with that song, and
(08:57):
that really is kind of what led the way to
this whole new project and this EP that began with
Pretty Good Living that is about to be coming out
here soon. It just it all kind of started becoming
clear to me. My vision and my sound and my
writing just all kind of came into focus with Right
(09:19):
On Time.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
I love it too, and What was so good about
that last EP? You mentioned this new chapter of being
a mom and putting out just some great tunes. But
I loved for my own good that EP out there
and really wanted to stood off for me on that
one was someone Else's radio. Just talk about that EP
in general and that entire project. How exciting it was
to get those five songs out to the public.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Yeah, it was. I had had so many of those
songs in my catalog and in my hip pocket for
years before that, and it really was the first studio
reported EP that I released. And those songs were, like
I said once, that I had known for years. I mean,
I had been singing them for years, and it just
(10:02):
it felt so good to have a cohesive project out
in the world that was really a statement of who
I am as an artist. I mean, that was the
first full project that I had released after going viral
on TikTok and gaining a boatload of new fans and listeners,
and it was just it was kind of a reintroduction
(10:24):
of me as an artist. And it's really special to
see those songs still still making their way and finding
new people every day. You know.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
You mentioned that nineties country seven, and I can't remember
a day they didn't turn on the radio if it
was WSM no fun intended, or just general radio down
here in Texas where I'm from, from country radio, either
Djane or just listening to it for fun down there too,
or the streaming when streaming got hot right right there
in the I guess what mid to early part of
two thousands, early to mid part of two thousands. Looking back, though,
(10:57):
I can't remember a time where those songs came on
the radio to the test of time, from anything from
Patsy Klin to you know, like I said, Martina McBride,
Toriba to Barbara Mandrel, it seems like your music. We
talked about that kind of fitting that nineties country thing.
What kind of did it for you? What made you tick?
Was it all those ladies just knowing that when that
song came on the radio, Sarah Beth, the first few
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chords you heard, you knew automatically the title of that
song and who was singing that song, and if you didn't,
you looked it up real quick. But more than likely
people knew those tunes and it just made it just
kind of paved the way for artists like yourself today
in country music, talk about that for me, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
I think I mean, first of all, those artists and
those songs were really I mean, that's where I fell
in love with country music to begin with. And so
I think it's really to me those artists and some
of our favorite classic country songs really are just about
the sporytelling and the writing. And you know, obviously that
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goes into sonically we do in the studio, but I
just think it really starts with some of those hooks,
and really that started in the writing room. And so
for me to just kind of hone in on, Okay,
how can we tell this story the simplest way, which
is usually the hardest way to tell the story, But
(12:17):
how can we tell that story the simplest way and
really not make it too busy in the studio. I mean,
let's let's make it sound like what I loved listening
to growing up. And I think, you know, just really
not being afraid to be myself and create the sound
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that I feel like is me. I mean, I think
I spent a lot of years in Nashville trying to
chase down something that I thought I should or shouldn't be,
and it's really freeing just to go, Hey, this is
the music that I love listening to, So I'm going
to put it out and hopefully there's some country music
fans who love who love it just as much as
(12:58):
I do.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
You know, it's got to be fun to find that
side of who you want to be as an artist,
that authenticity side. Yes, to know that you've got to
on in on that too, and then you get a
lot of pull a lot of different ways in this
industry too, no doubt, and like I said, compared to
what you think you should be, compared to what you
truly want to be. Talk about that story and just
how excited you were to find that niche because you'd
(13:20):
put out a lot of great songs before first Rodeo
had come out and released there in July. So talk
about that and finding that close proximity if you will
to be the artist you want to be.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Yeah, it was really freeing for me to, I think,
just stop worrying about perception. A lot of that happened
when I became a mom. I found out I was
pregnant in twenty twenty two, and like you said, I
mean I've released so many songs before then. I had
been chasing down this artist dream for a long time,
(13:53):
and that was kind of the pivotal moment for me.
Of I was so worried about what street people would
think of me raising a family and trying to start
my career that went into the music. I was worried
about how the music would be perceived, and honestly, all
(14:14):
of these things just kind of came to a head
for me in that year, and it resulted in me saying,
you know, these are the things that make me happy,
these are the things I want to sing about. This
is real life for me, and honestly, as a listener,
I want to hear I want to hear these songs.
I want to hear about my real life. I want
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to hear about womanhood in songs and on playlist and
on the radio. And you know, sometimes in my songs
that means me singing about being a mom, it means
singing about being a wife, and those things just really
started to run deep in my writing, and really that's
(14:57):
when it all clicked for me. I think that's when
it started clicking for even more fans, and I just realized,
you know, it's just so much better when you're not
trying to fight who you are and what you want
to sing about. It starts making the path a lot
easier because you're just being yourself, which sounds easier to
(15:17):
do than it is.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Well, you wrote one, and I we've talked about this
one on past shows that we've done. But May of
twenty twenty two, this beautiful one comes out, and I
won't have people just encourage people to hit it. It's
not the second song we're going to play today, but
if I was going to play a third song it
would be, no doubt one of my favorites from her,
called Mother's Daughter. Let's shed some light on this, because, man,
what a beautiful story you tell in the song, thank.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
You, Thank You. Yeah, it's funny that song came long
before having a daughter, and I sometimes you write something
and you don't even know how it's going to affect
you and become even more and more true as the
years go on. But I just I really I wrote
that about my mom and the special relationship that we have.
(16:02):
And once again, I mean, I think the honesty in
that song just has really kind of stood the test
of time these last couple of years. I see people
every year using it for Mother's Day and just to
honor that relationship with their mom. And now I cry
to it thinking about my daughter. So it just it
really that one just has a life that just keeps
(16:23):
on going. And it'll be fun to see that one
continuing years from now.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
I'll tell you what's going to continue as our second
song here on WSMAM six fifty, the Home of the
Grand ol Opry to you. I got to play some
more music right now from the great Sarahbeth Tait here
on the show, here on the backstage past, powered by
the Sports Guys podcast dot com. And you know what
life takes us on unexpected paths, And with this one
here is called Diamond and a Baby. Here it is
crack it.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Out, crying from the hid room.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Who's the next? Honey? Is hit me? If you get
the coffee, I don't care. The girl met downstairs, head the.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Table, who wouldn't change a thing, who feels like his two.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
Day fell in love with the boy and heaven look back,
a little soul kissing.
Speaker 11 (17:29):
In my heart beat fast.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
We were taking out time and chas like down days.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
In the kitchen fixing this gets same gravy. Look at
me rocking Diamond Man and Baby Another day of everybody
indeed and something but hey got him make some temples out,
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five minute, make a ten minutes.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Ay, isn't it fun? He had a town gets away.
Speaker 7 (18:09):
I fell in love with the boy and and made
a live back.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
A little soul kiss and made my heartey best. We
were taking out of town and chase like that and
dressing in.
Speaker 8 (18:23):
The kitchen, bitching biscuits and Grady don't get me rocking.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
And coming and baby.
Speaker 10 (18:38):
Hello, the one on my head, the one on this
ring who and the one who gave him me. I
fell in love with the boy, had him driven lid back.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
A little soul kissing, made my heartey best.
Speaker 11 (18:57):
We were taking our town and Jesi will be seen
plump some will a looking at each scene.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Don't it seem crazy? You all started with the demon
tannem Baby.
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some coffee with us. All right, So we got to
talk about this as we're back here with Sarahbeth take
on the show Life takes us on those unexpected journeys.
I love this one Diamond and a Baby. Let's get
the true story behind it.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
This song is truly just my day to day life
right now. It is this to me was the epitome
of writing my truth, and it's really just my anthem
these days. I think it's so it's so fun, and
it really just celebrates I used to think that being
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a mom, or even being a wife would kind of
hold me back, especially in the world of this music industry,
and this, to me was just that kind of exclamation
of saying, Hey, these things are actually the best part
of my life and the most important things and the
most important roles that I'll ever have. So it's just
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really me kind of celebrating the two things that I
love so much.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
And it's a great song too, and it's got just
a great feel to it, so definitely, I'm sure more
moms can relate to that too. At the same time
that Diamond and a Baby across all those digital streaming
platforms too. Hey, I want to talk to you about
this because I know we recently just lost one of
the great in country music. And I was at the
event for Sunday Morning Country backstage at the Opry there
during c May Week and Joe Bonsel years with the
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Oakreage Boys and a classic country we all grew up
on just talk about. I guess one was that one
of the groups, And of course I know everybody listened
to the Okreage Boys, but how much he will be
missed in country music and just the contribution that Joe
made to that group for well over I'm sure almost
five decades now, fifty years they've been touring and they're
still at it too, But just his memory and just
how much Joe will be missed in country music.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Oh my gosh, I just think, you know, he and
their group obviously just put such a huge stamp on
country music, and it's amazing to look back and realize
how pivotal someone like he was in all of the
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music we listened to today. I mean, think about all
of the artists that we listened to now, grew up
listening to Okrege Boys, and it shaped so many of
the artists that we have now and will forever have.
And so I think it's incredible to just see the lasting,
the lasting impression on our genre. It's always it's always
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really really sad and difficult to see such legends not
be with us anymore.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
It's tough, no doubt, And like I said, is memory
lives on. The music lives on as timeless classics too,
and definitely as weem Lee Golden said, they'll never be another.
Joe Bonsley told us that on the show a few
weeks back here at the Sunday Morning Country event at
the grandell Opry, all right, time to have a little
fun here when not doing music. What are some of
those hobbies? I know being a mom has got to
be at the top of that list. I really can't
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say necessity, not really a hobby. But when you do
get some I guess a date night, or you get
to go out and have maybe some brunch or something
with some of the girlfriends, what do you like to
do in the fun time when you're not being a mom?
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Oh my gosh, listen, it's so funny. I feel like
the hobbies question, I'm like, I don't even know what
my hobbies are more outside of just you know, music
and spending time with my family. But no, I definitely,
honestly at this point, just even just reading a book.
I recently, my husband and I went on a quick
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beach weekend for a few nights by ourselves, without the toddler,
and I'm like, oh my gosh, I forgot what it
was like to just be able to read a book
on the beach and not chasing a tiny human around.
So any time that I get some quiet time is
a new hobby.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Is a good hobby, no doubt about it too, all
right for I guess food on a date night or
just in Nashville in general too. I had my hot
chicken debate as of a couple of weeks ago. I
finally got the second half of it. It was Prince's
hot Chicken, and I got the mild. And then back
at CRS of this year, I went and got the
Hettie Be'es hot chicken, but I went for medium on that.
I guess, one, are you a hot chicken fan? I
realized it don't agree with everybody's stomach, but if not,
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we're some of your favorite restaurants today.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
I don't think it agrees with anybody's stomach, but I
salute everyone who tries. I am not a hot chicken person.
I'm just gonna be honest. I would just prefer fried chicken.
Like I just don't even have. Desire has never been
there for me, but I do, especially because we have
we just have such amazing food in Nashville. Yeah, I have.
(25:09):
I have a lot of Nashville restaurant favorites, but I'm
not I'm not the hot chicken connoisseur, So I'll have
to listen to you all for that.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Mine was Addie Bee's. I enjoyed that with too at
the same time. All right, had you never become a
country music singer or got into this full time, what
other career path I guess, even before becoming a mom too,
what other career path would you have taken?
Speaker 1 (25:32):
You know, hard to say because I started this journey
so early on in my life, but I really have
always and even alongside of my artist's career here, I've
always had a had a heart for kids. Before becoming
a mom, I've spent a lot of time at Vanderbilt
Children's Hospital secret studios, doing a lot of work with
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musicians on call. I think I would have ended up,
maybe not in the hospital setting, but probably in teaching
or something along those lines. I think I would have
been in a room full of kids somewhere if I
wasn't doing this.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
It takes true heart to do that job too. Like
I said, I love being a teacher. It's one of
the things I take the most pride, and especially at
the high school level, because you're teaching them so much
and kind of grooming them for the real world and
tell them how to get ready for life's right because
you never know where it's going to take you. And
I tell you what it could be their first rodeo
for many out there too. Do this a fantastic single
and so good to have you here again first rodeo
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the current single from the great Sarahbeth Tite across all
those digital streaming platforms and check her out at Sarah
Bethtate dot com t A I T e dot com
for more information out there too, from the tour date,
so the merchandise to all the good stuff out there. Hey,
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Always appreciate you coming back here on the platform. Hope
you enjoyed it and you know what, We're going to
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do this again.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Thank you so much for having me. Appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
You got it the one the only Sarahbeth Tait first
rodeo across all those digital streaming platforms out there too,
and of course check her out at Sarabethtate dot com.
We're back next Sunday for more here on WSM AM
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Stay tuned for a lot more. Take care and God
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Hope you're drinking coffee out there. Brandon Morel here and
the new single First Rodeo is definitely creating some really
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Music Television CMT and all the good stuff. But good
friends Sarah Beth Tate to the show how you doing.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Hey, I'm doing great? Thank you for having.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Me, appreciate you being here too, and just glad to
feature you here on WSM Radio. Well tell us about this.
This single is creating a lot of noise right now
in a good way for first rodeo. I no you
and I've done not our first rodeo here, no pun intended,
but we've done shows like this in the past two
But you put out a lot of great singles and
this one really, to me, just stands out to the
(01:19):
public and the country music fans.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Thank you so much. It is a favorite of mine.
I felt like it was perfect timing to put this
out just in the heat of the summer. It's just
really a nod to the nineties country music that we
all know and love. I mean, I feel like this
is my this is my version of Strawberry Wine. I mean,
(01:43):
not that anything's ever going to top that, It's just
it's just kind of for me in the writing room,
this was a really special one to create and bring
to life in the studio. And I feel like this
title and this hook, it's it's a fresh take on
the phrase that we hear all the time. I mean,
(02:04):
you just said it in conversation, because we hear the
Saint my Verus Radio so much, and we've heard so
many songs about that. And I love that you kind
of see this title and think that it's going to
be this cliche you've heard a million times. It's going
to be a song you've heard a million times, and
I think when you turn it on and you get
(02:25):
through the first chorus, you're just like, Oh, I didn't
I don't know that as a listener, I don't know
that I've heard this story and this hook before. So
that was really special to me.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Well, it does tell a beautiful story out there too.
And you have the best part about being on WSM.
We get to play a little music here on the
audio side. So here it is from Sarah FSA. It's
called First Rodeo. Catch it across all those digital streaming
platforms and you get to listen to it right here
on WSMAM six fifty, the Home of the Grand Ole Lockery.
You crank it up.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Seventeen.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
I was green as the grass Fremer parked on while
the sky turned the stars home. I took it too
far in the back of a bronco. I was scared,
didn't want you to stop, though.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
I believed everyonee you were mine and I was shoes.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
You rope me in long enough just to lecko, then
you lecko.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
You were my first road here, my first ride down.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
The red road, rocking board. Right out of the gate,
we took off in the cloud of smoke.
Speaker 7 (03:48):
Hell all over, and I promise shoot, I felt harder
than I thought.
Speaker 8 (03:53):
I was my first used to live running while first
time I was god boom.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
You were my first road here srising you.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Yeah, it probably should have told me you were the
kind that would hold me.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Skip town, head and head for the next one. I
learned my lesson from the best of them.
Speaker 7 (04:21):
You were my first rodio. My first ride had read the.
Speaker 8 (04:27):
Road like a bo ride out of the gate, we
took off in the cloud of smoke, hell all a
and I probably should I felt harder than I thought
I would.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
My first taste of love on my first time.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
I god boom, you were my first roadio.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
He believed, didn't you my I was yours? I should
be my last. But I'm glad that I didn't know.
You were my first rodeo. You are my first rodeo.
Speaker 7 (05:28):
Hell in a probisher, I fell harder than a fellow.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
My first changed to beloved on my first time.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
I God, you were my first rodeo. You're my first ronio.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Hey, y'all, it's Kapable Hutchinson on Backstage Pass on WSM
Home of the Grand O Opry.
Speaker 9 (06:09):
The Cadan Gordon Show is a two hour show playing
the best in country music. So check it out at
the candangordonshow dot com. Again, that is the Cadan Gordon
Show dot Com.
Speaker 10 (06:25):
Hey all, this is T Graham Brown and you're listening
to backstage past right here on WSM Radio Baby.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
And back here with Sarah bet Tate on the Home
of the Grand Ole Opry AM six fifty WSM. Please
to be joined here too by one of the greats
in country music out there, and she's carving that path
right now and doing it in so many ways. You know,
we talked about this probably on previous shows, but and
I love this single first rodeo we just played here
on the podcast here. But at the same time, so
many great ladies are doing their thing out there. We
(06:56):
mentioned Landy Wilson and of course Carly Pearce, Ashley mcbrine,
Hannah Ellis, Ashley Cook, the names go on and on.
What does that say about just females in country music
finally getting that due diligence.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Yeah, I just think it's it's a great time to
be a female artist and writer in this town right now.
I mean I think that I think we felt like
for so long we weren't hearing as many of our
voices on the radio and on playlists, And I just
think it just goes to show that if the songs
(07:28):
are good, if the music is good, it'll it'll shine,
you know. And I think that I think female country
music fans want to hear from us too.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
You've done some great music. I loved out there, and
we probably did a few shows on this one. But
it makes you think about life in general when you
talk about a song like pretty Good Living. Let's let's
shine the light there a little bit on this one too,
because sometimes we take this thing called life some of
us may be for granted, I can't speak for everybody,
but at the same time, I know, for me, I
try to take things so seriously. But when you step back, Sarah,
(08:00):
you listen to a song like pretty Good Living, you
kind of understand what did the rides all about?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Right? I know, I know that song makes me cry,
and it's so you know, hopefully that one is just
kind of a reminder to us and hopefully it makes
us feel a little better on the chaotic weeks. It's
like my therapy sometimes listening to that song. So yeah,
that one's really close to my heart for sure.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
And even one before that you had was called this
was twenty twenty two, I believe, Right on Time, and
this was a cool thing to kind of just you know,
bring a country music fans together. And this one calls
quite the buzz for you.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
M m it sure did? I think it was. That
was kind of the start of this new chapter for
me as as a mom and as an artist. You know,
just this new chapter of my artistry and my personal
life kind of came together starting with that song, and
(08:57):
that really is kind of what led the way to
this whole new project and this EP that began with
Pretty Good Living that is about to be coming out
here soon. It just it all kind of started becoming
clear to me. My vision and my sound and my
writing just all kind of came into focus with Right
(09:19):
On Time.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
I love it too, and What was so good about
that last EP? You mentioned this new chapter of being
a mom and putting out just some great tunes. But
I loved for my own good that EP out there
and really wanted to stood off for me on that
one was someone Else's radio. Just talk about that EP
in general and that entire project. How exciting it was
to get those five songs out to the public.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Yeah, it was. I had had so many of those
songs in my catalog and in my hip pocket for
years before that, and it really was the first studio
reported EP that I released. And those songs were, like
I said once, that I had known for years. I mean,
I had been singing them for years, and it just
(10:02):
it felt so good to have a cohesive project out
in the world that was really a statement of who
I am as an artist. I mean, that was the
first full project that I had released after going viral
on TikTok and gaining a boatload of new fans and listeners,
and it was just it was kind of a reintroduction
(10:24):
of me as an artist. And it's really special to
see those songs still still making their way and finding
new people every day. You know.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
You mentioned that nineties country seven, and I can't remember
a day they didn't turn on the radio if it
was WSM no fun intended, or just general radio down
here in Texas where I'm from, from country radio, either
Djane or just listening to it for fun down there too,
or the streaming when streaming got hot right right there
in the I guess what mid to early part of
two thousands, early to mid part of two thousands. Looking back, though,
(10:57):
I can't remember a time where those songs came on
the radio to the test of time, from anything from
Patsy Klin to you know, like I said, Martina McBride,
Toriba to Barbara Mandrel, it seems like your music. We
talked about that kind of fitting that nineties country thing.
What kind of did it for you? What made you tick?
Was it all those ladies just knowing that when that
song came on the radio, Sarah Beth, the first few
(11:18):
chords you heard, you knew automatically the title of that
song and who was singing that song, and if you didn't,
you looked it up real quick. But more than likely
people knew those tunes and it just made it just
kind of paved the way for artists like yourself today
in country music, talk about that for me, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
I think I mean, first of all, those artists and
those songs were really I mean, that's where I fell
in love with country music to begin with. And so
I think it's really to me those artists and some
of our favorite classic country songs really are just about
the sporytelling and the writing. And you know, obviously that
(11:57):
goes into sonically we do in the studio, but I
just think it really starts with some of those hooks,
and really that started in the writing room. And so
for me to just kind of hone in on, Okay,
how can we tell this story the simplest way, which
is usually the hardest way to tell the story, But
(12:17):
how can we tell that story the simplest way and
really not make it too busy in the studio. I mean,
let's let's make it sound like what I loved listening
to growing up. And I think, you know, just really
not being afraid to be myself and create the sound
(12:38):
that I feel like is me. I mean, I think
I spent a lot of years in Nashville trying to
chase down something that I thought I should or shouldn't be,
and it's really freeing just to go, Hey, this is
the music that I love listening to, So I'm going
to put it out and hopefully there's some country music
fans who love who love it just as much as
(12:58):
I do.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
You know, it's got to be fun to find that
side of who you want to be as an artist,
that authenticity side. Yes, to know that you've got to
on in on that too, and then you get a
lot of pull a lot of different ways in this
industry too, no doubt, and like I said, compared to
what you think you should be, compared to what you
truly want to be. Talk about that story and just
how excited you were to find that niche because you'd
(13:20):
put out a lot of great songs before first Rodeo
had come out and released there in July. So talk
about that and finding that close proximity if you will
to be the artist you want to be.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Yeah, it was really freeing for me to, I think,
just stop worrying about perception. A lot of that happened
when I became a mom. I found out I was
pregnant in twenty twenty two, and like you said, I
mean I've released so many songs before then. I had
been chasing down this artist dream for a long time,
(13:53):
and that was kind of the pivotal moment for me.
Of I was so worried about what street people would
think of me raising a family and trying to start
my career that went into the music. I was worried
about how the music would be perceived, and honestly, all
(14:14):
of these things just kind of came to a head
for me in that year, and it resulted in me saying,
you know, these are the things that make me happy,
these are the things I want to sing about. This
is real life for me, and honestly, as a listener,
I want to hear I want to hear these songs.
I want to hear about my real life. I want
(14:35):
to hear about womanhood in songs and on playlist and
on the radio. And you know, sometimes in my songs
that means me singing about being a mom, it means
singing about being a wife, and those things just really
started to run deep in my writing, and really that's
(14:57):
when it all clicked for me. I think that's when
it started clicking for even more fans, and I just realized,
you know, it's just so much better when you're not
trying to fight who you are and what you want
to sing about. It starts making the path a lot
easier because you're just being yourself, which sounds easier to
(15:17):
do than it is.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Well, you wrote one, and I we've talked about this
one on past shows that we've done. But May of
twenty twenty two, this beautiful one comes out, and I
won't have people just encourage people to hit it. It's
not the second song we're going to play today, but
if I was going to play a third song it
would be, no doubt one of my favorites from her,
called Mother's Daughter. Let's shed some light on this, because, man,
what a beautiful story you tell in the song, thank.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
You, Thank You. Yeah, it's funny that song came long
before having a daughter, and I sometimes you write something
and you don't even know how it's going to affect
you and become even more and more true as the
years go on. But I just I really I wrote
that about my mom and the special relationship that we have.
(16:02):
And once again, I mean, I think the honesty in
that song just has really kind of stood the test
of time these last couple of years. I see people
every year using it for Mother's Day and just to
honor that relationship with their mom. And now I cry
to it thinking about my daughter. So it just it
really that one just has a life that just keeps
(16:23):
on going. And it'll be fun to see that one
continuing years from now.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
I'll tell you what's going to continue as our second
song here on WSMAM six fifty, the Home of the
Grand ol Opry to you. I got to play some
more music right now from the great Sarahbeth Tait here
on the show, here on the backstage past, powered by
the Sports Guys podcast dot com. And you know what
life takes us on unexpected paths, And with this one
here is called Diamond and a Baby. Here it is
crack it.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Out, crying from the hid room.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Who's the next? Honey? Is hit me? If you get
the coffee, I don't care. The girl met downstairs, head the.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Table, who wouldn't change a thing, who feels like his two.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
Day fell in love with the boy and heaven look back,
a little soul kissing.
Speaker 11 (17:29):
In my heart beat fast.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
We were taking out time and chas like down days.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
In the kitchen fixing this gets same gravy. Look at
me rocking Diamond Man and Baby Another day of everybody
indeed and something but hey got him make some temples out,
(18:01):
five minute, make a ten minutes.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Ay, isn't it fun? He had a town gets away.
Speaker 7 (18:09):
I fell in love with the boy and and made
a live back.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
A little soul kiss and made my heartey best. We
were taking out of town and chase like that and
dressing in.
Speaker 8 (18:23):
The kitchen, bitching biscuits and Grady don't get me rocking.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
And coming and baby.
Speaker 10 (18:38):
Hello, the one on my head, the one on this
ring who and the one who gave him me. I
fell in love with the boy, had him driven lid back.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
A little soul kissing, made my heartey best.
Speaker 11 (18:57):
We were taking our town and Jesi will be seen
plump some will a looking at each scene.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Don't it seem crazy? You all started with the demon
tannem Baby.
Speaker 12 (19:22):
Baby, Hey, y'all, it's Nashville recording artist Russell Dickerson and
you're listening to the backstage past with Brandon on the
(19:42):
Home of the Opry six fifty am WSM.
Speaker 9 (19:47):
The Caiden Gordon Show is a two hour show playing
the best in country music, So check it out at
the Caiden Gordon Show dot com. Again, that is the
Caiden Gordon Show dot com.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
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Matten stage.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Fast and be sure and check Kate now. He's always
got a lot of great programs, a lot of the
same guests we have here on the backstage pass, so
check him out. Great podcast up in Boston, Massa Chusetts.
We just tag teamed all that this year pretty much
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(20:25):
backstage pass all right there back here on AM six
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and set your alarm clock and get up and drink
some coffee with us. All right, So we got to
talk about this as we're back here with Sarahbeth take
on the show Life takes us on those unexpected journeys.
I love this one Diamond and a Baby. Let's get
the true story behind it.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
This song is truly just my day to day life
right now. It is this to me was the epitome
of writing my truth, and it's really just my anthem
these days. I think it's so it's so fun, and
it really just celebrates I used to think that being
(21:09):
a mom, or even being a wife would kind of
hold me back, especially in the world of this music industry,
and this, to me was just that kind of exclamation
of saying, Hey, these things are actually the best part
of my life and the most important things and the
most important roles that I'll ever have. So it's just
(21:32):
really me kind of celebrating the two things that I
love so much.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
And it's a great song too, and it's got just
a great feel to it, so definitely, I'm sure more
moms can relate to that too. At the same time
that Diamond and a Baby across all those digital streaming
platforms too. Hey, I want to talk to you about
this because I know we recently just lost one of
the great in country music. And I was at the
event for Sunday Morning Country backstage at the Opry there
during c May Week and Joe Bonsel years with the
(22:00):
Oakreage Boys and a classic country we all grew up
on just talk about. I guess one was that one
of the groups, And of course I know everybody listened
to the Okreage Boys, but how much he will be
missed in country music and just the contribution that Joe
made to that group for well over I'm sure almost
five decades now, fifty years they've been touring and they're
still at it too, But just his memory and just
how much Joe will be missed in country music.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Oh my gosh, I just think, you know, he and
their group obviously just put such a huge stamp on
country music, and it's amazing to look back and realize
how pivotal someone like he was in all of the
(22:42):
music we listened to today. I mean, think about all
of the artists that we listened to now, grew up
listening to Okrege Boys, and it shaped so many of
the artists that we have now and will forever have.
And so I think it's incredible to just see the lasting,
the lasting impression on our genre. It's always it's always
(23:03):
really really sad and difficult to see such legends not
be with us anymore.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
It's tough, no doubt, And like I said, is memory
lives on. The music lives on as timeless classics too,
and definitely as weem Lee Golden said, they'll never be another.
Joe Bonsley told us that on the show a few
weeks back here at the Sunday Morning Country event at
the grandell Opry, all right, time to have a little
fun here when not doing music. What are some of
those hobbies? I know being a mom has got to
be at the top of that list. I really can't
(23:34):
say necessity, not really a hobby. But when you do
get some I guess a date night, or you get
to go out and have maybe some brunch or something
with some of the girlfriends, what do you like to
do in the fun time when you're not being a mom?
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Oh my gosh, listen, it's so funny. I feel like
the hobbies question, I'm like, I don't even know what
my hobbies are more outside of just you know, music
and spending time with my family. But no, I definitely,
honestly at this point, just even just reading a book.
I recently, my husband and I went on a quick
(24:05):
beach weekend for a few nights by ourselves, without the toddler,
and I'm like, oh my gosh, I forgot what it
was like to just be able to read a book
on the beach and not chasing a tiny human around.
So any time that I get some quiet time is
a new hobby.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Is a good hobby, no doubt about it too, all
right for I guess food on a date night or
just in Nashville in general too. I had my hot
chicken debate as of a couple of weeks ago. I
finally got the second half of it. It was Prince's
hot Chicken, and I got the mild. And then back
at CRS of this year, I went and got the
Hettie Be'es hot chicken, but I went for medium on that.
I guess, one, are you a hot chicken fan? I
realized it don't agree with everybody's stomach, but if not,
(24:43):
we're some of your favorite restaurants today.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
I don't think it agrees with anybody's stomach, but I
salute everyone who tries. I am not a hot chicken person.
I'm just gonna be honest. I would just prefer fried chicken.
Like I just don't even have. Desire has never been
there for me, but I do, especially because we have
we just have such amazing food in Nashville. Yeah, I have.
(25:09):
I have a lot of Nashville restaurant favorites, but I'm
not I'm not the hot chicken connoisseur, So I'll have
to listen to you all for that.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Mine was Addie Bee's. I enjoyed that with too at
the same time. All right, had you never become a
country music singer or got into this full time, what
other career path I guess, even before becoming a mom too,
what other career path would you have taken?
Speaker 1 (25:32):
You know, hard to say because I started this journey
so early on in my life, but I really have
always and even alongside of my artist's career here, I've
always had a had a heart for kids. Before becoming
a mom, I've spent a lot of time at Vanderbilt
Children's Hospital secret studios, doing a lot of work with
(25:56):
musicians on call. I think I would have ended up,
maybe not in the hospital setting, but probably in teaching
or something along those lines. I think I would have
been in a room full of kids somewhere if I
wasn't doing this.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
It takes true heart to do that job too. Like
I said, I love being a teacher. It's one of
the things I take the most pride, and especially at
the high school level, because you're teaching them so much
and kind of grooming them for the real world and
tell them how to get ready for life's right because
you never know where it's going to take you. And
I tell you what it could be their first rodeo
for many out there too. Do this a fantastic single
and so good to have you here again first rodeo
(26:34):
the current single from the great Sarahbeth Tite across all
those digital streaming platforms and check her out at Sarah
Bethtate dot com t A I T e dot com
for more information out there too, from the tour date,
so the merchandise to all the good stuff out there. Hey,
please to have you this week on a Sunday for
WSM and feature you as an artist and your music.
Always appreciate you coming back here on the platform. Hope
you enjoyed it and you know what, We're going to
(26:54):
do this again.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Thank you so much for having me. Appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
You got it the one the only Sarahbeth Tait first
rodeo across all those digital streaming platforms out there too,
and of course check her out at Sarabethtate dot com.
We're back next Sunday for more here on WSM AM
six point fifty the home of the grand Ole Oprary.
Stay tuned for a lot more. Take care and God
bless all. This is Richard sturbin Lydio Bridge Boils eighty.
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